Industry insights

Movement Matters is a series of inspirational seminars, debates and workshops in the UK and USA, presented by Steer Davies Gleave, exploring how transport shapes and influences places, people and economies.

Steer Davies Gleave has recently been awarded a place on the ESPO Framework 664-17 Consultancy Services.

ESPO is a customer-focused, public-sector owned professional buying organisation that provides the public sector with procurement solutions to cut costs, reduce tendering times and receive the best possible value.

London has seen rapid change over the past 25 years, reversing decades of decline through a combination of globalisation and adopting ambitious strategies to help unlock growth, embrace diversity and nurture talent. The devolution of powers to London through the creation of the Mayor for London and the London Assembly has been a catalyst in transforming the city. London’s Mayors have been at the centre of this change, using its relatively limited powers to showcase what can be done.

Passenger night trains carrying sleeping cars or couchette stock have been operated across Europe for over a century. Some railways continue to provide them as part of their long-distance services, or by agreement with neighbouring railways. Others have cut them back, because they are not profitable or not supported by a social, economic or environmental case.

Steer Davies Gleave hosts yet another successful Movement Matters event in London focused on the future of the black cab.

The black cab is an iconic image of London, but recent technological advances and changes in the Taxi and Private Hire market have meant that it faces an uncertain future. As part of our Movement Matters series, we brought together three industry experts to debate whether the black cab faces decline, disruption or both.